Birthdays: Cannaletto, Lotte Lenya, Wynton Marsalis, George C. Scott, Pierre Trudeau, Lee Harvey Oswald, Mike Dytka, Peter Boyle, Inger Stevens, Violetta Chamorro, Wendy Wasserstein, Wynton Marsalis, Martina Navratilova, Zack Efron is 31, Jean Claude Van Damme, The Muscles from Brussels- is 62.
1776- Cato’s Road House, a colonial tavern New York City decorated with birds opened. The owner was a free black man named Cato Alexander. Customers ordered a favorite drink he created, called a "Cocks Tail" or cocktail. The origin of the name.
1896- Joseph Pulitzer's N.Y. Journal American created the first Sunday Color Comics supplement.
1922- The British Broadcast Corp or BBC formed.
1924- College football star Red Grange scored four long yardage touchdowns in one game.
1926- In Hollywood Sid Grauman's Egyptian Theater opens.
1931- Thomas Edison died peacefully at age 84. His last words were-
"It's beautiful over there..."
1946- Walt Disney premiered The Story of Menstruation.
1950- In a heated and emotional showdown in the Directors Guild all motions were defeated by C.B. DeMille and Frank Capra to extend the Hollywood anti-Communist blacklist. Billy Wilder, John Huston, John Ford and Mervyn LeRoy supported President Joe Mankiewicz who blocked the Blacklist Motions, and they also blocked a recall vote on Mankiewicz' s presidency.
1954- Hi & Lois comic strip debuted.
1967- Walt Disney's last cartoon done under his supervision "the Jungle Book." premiered. Disney had died the previous December.
1974- Tobe Hooper's low budget cult film Texas Chainsaw Massacre first opened. Despite one film critic calling it " a bunch of sick crap" it became a huge hit.
1977- New York Yankee batter Reggie Jackson earned the name Mr. October by slugging three home runs in a World Series Game against the LA Dodgers.
1982- President Reagan said during a radio address:" My Fellow Americans, the economy is in a helluva mess....this microphone isn't on, is it?.."
1984- Handsome young television star John Eric Hexum died after shooting himself with a prop pistol. Even though it was loaded with blanks the concussion of compressed air at close range cracked his skull. He was playing at mock- Russian Roulette. His last words to his friends were "Lets see if I can do myself in this time!"
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